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Thursday, March 30, 2017

The Illustration Friday Challenge this week captures my little quacker clinging to an umbrella to ride out the storm in a puddle.. I had fun with this one because I switched up my medium. I've been wanting to try watercolors so I gave it a whirl.

Now, for all you watercolourist out there, be easy on me because like I already said, this is the first time I've ever painted with watercolors. Thank goodness for YouTube. I still have so much to learn about washes and I guess basically everything about watercolors. So yesterday I went to my library and found a few books on watercolor. I will be reading them from cover to cover.

Illustration Friday Challenge topic for this week is "umbrella." This is what I came up with.

This is a lighter version of it. The top one I took a picture at night and this one was during the day. I like them both but to get that stormy feel I like the darker one. What do you think?

The top one I took a picture at night and this one was during the day. I like them both but to get that stormy feel I like the darker one. What do you think?

If you want to check out my other Illustration Challenges you can find them here.

Monday, March 6, 2017

This week in my Craftsy Class, "Expressive Picture Book Characters" Lynne Chapman taught us about adding character and emotion. Our assignment was to draw animals and humans with different features and emotions.

This is the first one I did.

The instructor wanted me to add bodies to my characters so I re-did the assignment and came up with this.

I can't wait until the next assignment where we will be learning about body language.

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Hi, I'm an illustrator/writer currently living in Virginia with my spouse, two cats, and a dog. I have been drawing since I could pick up a pencil many moons ago. As a kid I would spend hours and hours in my room drawing Donald Duck, Goofy, Mickey Mouse, and the Peanuts characters. Anything to do with Walt Disney or Charles Schultz you can bet I was drawing.

I am a traditional artist and like to keep things simple. Pen and ink and color pencil are my preferred mediums. I love to create characters that make people smile and for children to remember like Walt Disney and Charles Schultz characters did for me.

I guess you could say I'm just a big kid living in this adult body and it comes through in my art.